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No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.
Woodrow Wilson
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Woodrow Wilson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1856
Born: December 28
Died: 1924
Died: February 23
28Th U.S. President
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.
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You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.
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Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
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I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
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It must be a peace without victory
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Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.
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...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.
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